Parish council agree to fell tree - how to stop?

[Two Acres]

Eddy - anyi ideas why the power network would replace many of the poles and lines in the village any yet leave the one going through the tree?

[Mesterh]

Eddy - anyi ideas why the power network would replace many of the poles and lines in the village any yet leave the one going through the tree?

 

probably waiting for the tree team to cut a big hole in it first, that or fell it. I jest not.

 

Have you any up to date pics yet showing the health of the tree?

[Eddy_t]

Eddy - anyi ideas why the power network would replace many of the poles and lines in the village any yet leave the one going through the tree?

 

 

Probably the reason given by mesterh, but also it can be due to scheduling shutdowns, as DNO's are restricted by law on how many outages they can have in an area at one given time. Stringing the line through that tree would be more difficult than over an open area. If the tree has already been permissioned then the DNO will wait for that shutdown for tree work before replacement of the conductors.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

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I've been looking at the tree council website, they look good, however theres no simple way to contact them. I can't see a 'contact' page or email address?

 

 

 

I'll keep you posted as things progress

 

 

 

Cheers

 

 

It's not a particularly user friendly website but this page will show a map which may give the area coordinator contact details:

 

http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/Take-Part/Near-You

[Eddy_t]

Have we completely glossed over the fact that this tree is through the conductors and the tree survey suggests that the tree is of poor structural integrity, there are signs of die-back and it has leaf miner?

Until photos are taken of the unions, the dead spot and the crown, it's not worth offering advice on retention of the tree. Google street veiw is over 5 years old, in the photo posted earlier there are no signs of leaf miner in the photo, no dead twigs and the tree is in flower!

Given the growth characteristics of horse chestnut, which tends to have a tear-out problem, a weakness to pathogenic infestation and a fairly rapid growth rate, amenity value is second rate to target safety, which was stated in an earlier post that children play under a potentially live (especially in this weather), structurally unsound tree, which is going to have as a minimum 3 whole meters cut away from the line passing through its crown. That is a legal requirement, it even over-rides a preservation order! It'll look crap! Let it be felled and have a nice copper beech or oak instead!

[Jim B]

Once upon a time a tree would have been planted, it would have grown, village life carried on with more important things to worry about, the tree may have shed a limb in a gale probably cleared up by the local farmer and the tree left alone. We have thousands of such mature trees we praise yet if planted today would be felled due to the acute fork and included bark. Let's not forget that on average less than 1% die per annum due to trees. How many drive or walk under trees every day and how many die each day by driving into or over each other. We need to be careful, trees are precious.

Edited September 1, 2015 by Jim B
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[Cae Ffynnon]

Any chance of some pictures of the actual tree?

Being subjective rather than sentimental, if it does have the issues as described in the report and rembering that the surveyor can only report on what he can see rather than having been able to monitor the tree over a prolonged period. Safety has to comesbecomes before amenity value. If it was in a wood, then no problem, a village green next to a pub; potentially a lot of targets.

Sadly in this day and age in comes down to risk management rather than it will be alright.

Would the same villagers be so keen to keep the tree if took out there electric during a storm.

I think what i'm trying to say is, the right tree in the right place.

Shame as I do like a Horse Chesnut tree, makes a change to the Cessile Oaks and Ash around here.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

What's the news then??

 

Tree? Girls chained to tree??

[Philip Anderson]

It seems to have died a death!

[Eddy_t]

It seems to have died a death!

 

 

Tree probably shed an included limb in a heavy downpour, which swiped the overheads, and now the village has been took back to the dark ages in all honesty, he's probably looked at the tree properly, referenced the surveyor report against it, and realised the tree is fubar, then decided to let the thread die.